Bronze Age trade in glass+amber between Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia & Denmark, c1400-1100 BC :) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031400449X …pic.twitter.com/CZqI8nyM9b
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Bronze Age trade in glass+amber between Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia & Denmark, c1400-1100 BC :) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031400449X …pic.twitter.com/CZqI8nyM9b
Image of the 14thC BC Ølby grave w/ Egyptian bead (40 km south of Copenhagen) is via this report, incidentally:http://sciencenordic.com/danish-bronze-age-glass-beads-traced-egypt …
A 2ndC BC Ptolemaic naophorous statue, weighing 48lbs, found 9 feet down in Middlesex in 1929! http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=120309&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/tetp9mDJyX
The ArchJnl, 1936, notes found in "undisturbed gravel under clay"; used as doorstop at HMV factory until someone pointed out what it was! :)
@caitlinrgreen I wonder about the significance of the figure in relief within the statue. And just use a wedge under that door from now on!
@GeorgeRick1 Lol! It's described as a statue of a priest, now headless, holding in front a shrine with an image of a god :)
@caitlinrgreen I see! It's a bit eerily prescient of the Catholic practice of holding a monstrance aloft for veneration of the Host.
@caitlinrgreen @DorothyKing or 'planted' by finders.A lot of it about among metal detectorists seeking 'find of the month' club prize.
@PortantIssues @DorothyKing Biddle in article mentioned discusses similar :) poss for some, but don't think works as general explanation :)
@caitlinrgreen @DorothyKing how to tell, you've noted a lot of 'out of place' stuff in PAS database, must mean sthg
@PortantIssues @DorothyKing I think the multi-generational finds are noteworthy, from 19thC onwards, as Biddle says; also fact that some >
@PortantIssues @DorothyKing > found several feet down eg Tenby Menander coin, plus the Ptolemaic hoard of c1900. Also think differential >
@PortantIssues @DorothyKing > deposition is key, see second map---v few Classical Greek, Phoenician, collectable Syracuse coins as might >
@PortantIssues @DorothyKing > expect if just random losses or ppl planting "interesting" coins. Also note Winchester evidence---if hoaxes >
@PortantIssues @DorothyKing > then v long lasting as Ptolemaic coins found over three generations in and around Winchester! :)
@caitlinrgreen I smell Romans behind this. Or is that a dumb thought?
@MariusHollenga Oh, def possible for some, but others could be pre-Roman losses eg Winchester coins, Cumbria hoard :)
@caitlinrgreen Well, that means there was more contact than I always thought, I always imagined the pre-Roman world as "small"
@MariusHollenga Could be indirect, tho ppl seem happy w/ Carthaginians visiting Britain & Greek Pytheas def did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas
@MariusHollenga For really far-ranging contacts, how about these coins from the Indo-Greek kingdom!? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/01/indo-greek-indo-scythian-other-early.html …
@caitlinrgreen Beautiful coins, too.
@MariusHollenga Definitely! Eg Worn one of these from London, Apollodotus, perhaps ruled down to Gujarat in 2C BC :)pic.twitter.com/5gahQ4mS8V
@caitlinrgreen How...Greek were these kings? Was it similar to what happened in Egypt?
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